Lead Software Engineer - Java Full Stack, Microservices, React JS, Docker, CI/CD

jda; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

jda is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to architect, design, and deliver scalable SaaS solutions with a focus on React, TypeScript, Node.js and Java.

You will mentor teams, own architecture decisions for microservices and event-driven systems, and stay hands-on across frontend and backend.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on full-stack capabilities.
• Experience in microservices, distributed systems, and multi-tenant SaaS apps.
• Strong React.js and TypeScript skills with modern frontend practices.
• Proficient in Node.js back-end development and REST APIs.
• Hands-on Java/Spring Boot and cloud-native design experience.
• Ability to drive architecture decisions and mentoring across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications.
• Develop modern and reusable React/TypeScript UI components, hooks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Design and develop scalable Node.js REST APIs and backend services.
• Work with Java/Spring Boot services and contribute to backend architecture and development as required.
• Drive technical design decisions for microservices, event-driven, cloud-native, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Establish engineering best practices around coding, testing, CI/CD, observability and deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance; mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, platform teams, and other engineering groups.

Skills

React.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

CI/CD

GitOps

Tools

Azure

Kafka

Postgres

MongoDB

GitHub CI/CD

Job description

Scope:

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer with strong full stack development experience to architect, design, develop, and deliver scalable SaaS solutions. The role will have a strong focus on React, TypeScript, Node.js and Java technology.

The candidate will work closely with engineering teams and architects to build scalable, resilient, secure, event driven, and multi-tenant applications and will be expected to remain hands on while providing technical leadership and mentorship

Our current technical environment:

• Software: Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, JavaScript, React.js, Redux, Node.js, Gradle, REST APIs, Snowflake,
• Application Architecture: Cloud-native, scalable and resilient microservices architecture, Event driven architecture etc.
• Cloud Architecture: Azure
• Frameworks/Others: Kafka, Snowflake, Postgres, Mongo DB, Github CI/CD, Elastic Search

What you'll do:

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack applications.
• Develop modern and reusable React/TypeScript UI components, hooks, libraries, and frameworks.
• Design and develop scalable Node.js REST APIs and backend services.
• Work with Java/Spring Boot services and contribute to backend architecture and development as required.
• Drive technical design decisions for microservices, event-driven, cloud-native, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Design solutions for scalability, performance, resiliency, availability, and security.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices around coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot complex production and performance issues and identify sustainable solutions.
• Collaborate with architects, product teams, platform teams, and other engineering teams.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Lead POCs and evaluate new technologies/frameworks to solve complex business problems.
• Contribute hands-on to coding and remain actively involved throughout the development lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvements to simplify architecture, improve maintainability, and optimize system performance.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years of software development experience, with strong hands-on full-stack development experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Java and Spring Boot, Java is a secondary technology for this role.
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Strong experience with React.js and TypeScript.
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and Java particularly building scalable REST APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript/TypeScript, ES6+, object-oriented programming, and core CS fundamentals.
• Experience with React Hooks, Redux, React Router and reusable component development.
• Experience building reusable UI components, libraries, frameworks, or developer toolkits.
• Strong HTML5 and CSS skills, including hands-on experience with styled-components or Emotion.
• Experience writing unit and integration tests using Jest, Mocha, or similar frameworks.
• Good experience with REST APIs, API management, OAuth, and secure application integration.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming/messaging technologies.
• Good understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Azure/cloud-native technologies and cloud scalability.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and Agile development practices.
• Strong problem-solving, architectural thinking, communication, and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work hands-on while providing technical leadership across engineering teams.

Our Values

If you want to know the heart of a company, take a look at their values. Ours unite us. They are what drive our success - and the success of our customers. Does your heart beat like ours? Find out here: Core Values

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.